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Sunday's Silly Science Roundup

Category: Silly Science
Posted on: October 29, 2006 9:30 AM, by Neurontic

This just in from the great minds at the University of Central Florida: Laws of physics, math debunk Hollywood portrayals of ghosts, vampires.

Using Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion, [UCF researchers] demonstrated that ghosts would not be able to walk and pass through walls [and] basic math disproves the legend of humans turning into vampires after they are bitten . . . because the entire human population in 1600 would have been wiped out in less than three years.
Time well spent guys--really.

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